turnout

1. The act of coming forth; spec if., a quitting of employment, as of workmen who comes out on strike; a strike. 2. A number of persons who come out on some special occasion, as to see a spectacle, to witne a performance, to take part in a contest, meeting, or the like. "There was a good turn - out of members."- Field , Oct. 3, 1885. boil, boy; pout, jowl; cat, çell, chorus, ally projecting from a collar, which revolves around the axis of the table. The apexes of the cone would, if they were complete, meet at a point in their axis. correspondingly beveled, the lower of which is They are interposed between two annular castings fixed, and serves as a track, and the upper is attached to and turns with the table. Flanges on the inner ends of the rollers prevent their being pushed outwardly by the pre ure. In a modified arrangement, small conical rollers, turning between the large rollers and plates on the ends of the arms which carry them, are substituted for the flanges. Adams' turn-table floats in a water-tank. 2. Micros.: A device upon which a slide is held and revolved for tracing the circular cement-cells in which objects are placed for examination. *turn-tippet, s. A turncoat. "The priests, for the most part, were double faced, turn - tippets , and flatterers."-Cranmer: Confutation of Unwritten Verities. turn-tree, s. turn-dun, s. [Australian name.] Anthrop.: A small, fish-shaped piece of thin, flat wood, tied to a thong, and whirled in the air to produce a loud roaring noise, whence it is sometimes called a bull-roarer. This instrument is used by the natives of Australia to call together the men, and to frighten away the women from the religious mysteries. The turndun is employed for similar purposes in New Mexico, South Africa, and New Zealand. In the Mysteries of Dionysos the ancient Greeks used a kind of turndun, which they called rhombos , probably identical with the "mystic a vannus Iacchi." ( Virgil : Georg.i. 166.) "The conclusion drawn by the ethnologist is that this object, called Turndun by the Austral i ans, is a very early savage invention, probably discovered and applied to religious purposes in various separate centers, and retained from the age of savagery in the mystic rites of Greeks and perhaps of Romans."-Corn hill Magazine, Jan., 1883, p. 84. türned, pa. par. or a. [TURN, v.] To be turned , To have turned of: To be advanced beyond; to have pa ed or exceeded. (Said of age.) "When turned of forty they determined to retire to the country."- Add is on . turned backward, a. Bot.: Turn in a direction opposite to that of the apex of the body to which the part turned appertains. [RETRORSE.] turned-house, s. Mining: A term used when a level, in following branches of ore, is turned out of the original direction.